scrimy

Thân thiện

A scrimy man left a single coin as a tip on the restaurant table.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Meanly stingy or miserly: Describes a person who is very reluctant to spend money or give things away, often in a petty or contemptible manner.
   • Dirty, squalid, or morally repulsive: Describes something that is physically filthy, sordid, or considered disgusting and low in a moral sense.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective (Stingy):
  • He left a scrimy tip for the server who provided excellent service.
  • Her scrimy attitude towards charity shocked her friends.
• Adjective (Dirty/Repulsive):
  • They refused to stay in the scrimy motel room.
  • The novel explores the scrimy underbelly of the city's politics.

Advanced Usage

• The word often carries a strong connotation of moral judgment or disgust beyond the simple descriptive meanings of "stingy" or "dirty."
• It can be used figuratively to describe actions, atmospheres, or situations perceived as underhanded, sordid, or contemptible.
  • He was involved in some scrimy business deals.

Variants and Related Words

• Scriminess (noun): The state or quality of being scrimy.
  • The scriminess of the transaction made her uncomfortable.

Synonyms

• For "stingy": miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, tightfisted, penny-pinching.
• For "dirty/repulsive": squalid, sordid, filthy, grubby, sleazy, seedy.

Related Idioms

• While not a direct idiom, behavior described as is often associated with the idiom "penny-wise and pound-foolish," highlighting a focus on trivial savings.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. petty or reluctant in giving or spending
   • a niggardly tip
2. dirty and disgusting
   • worry about the gossip and secretiveness and other scrimy sides- Al Hine

Từ đồng nghĩa

• grudging
• niggardly